GRAND PRIX SERIES
Poirier finished with silver and a score of 157.58 points.
MEN Adam Rippon led the U.S. charge, rallying
with the third-best free skate to place fifth over- all. Te 2012 U.S. silver medalist, performing to “Piano Concerto No. 1” by Franz Liszt, opened with a triple Axel-double toe-double loop for 12.46 points. He fell on his second triple Axel, but recovered to land five more triples. He fin- ished with a total score of 225.42. Richard Dornbush and Douglas Razzano
Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue
we did at Skate Canada, but we did make a major mistake, which was unfortunate,” Hubbell said. “At this point, we are just racing against time. I think that we have the talent and potential to progress faster than others.” France’s rising stars Gabriella Papadakis and
Guillaume Cizeron secured the gold medal with 166.66 points. Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul
NHK TROPHY Gracie breaks through
with gold medal U.S. champion Gracie Gold earned her
first Grand Prix Series title and clinched her first Grand Prix Final berth with a victory at NHK Trophy in Osaka, Japan, Nov. 28–30. After winning the short program with a stel-
lar routine that opened with a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination, Gold landed four clean triple jumps, including a double Axel-triple toe combination, in her free skate to a vocal ren- dition of “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again” from Te Phantom of the Opera. Although she fell on a triple Salchow and doubled an intended triple flip, her total score of
Gracie Gold Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker
191.16 points bested her bronze-medal efforts at Hilton HHonors Skate America by 12 points. Russia’s Alena Leonova won the silver med-
al in Osaka with 186.40 points, while Japan’s Satoko Miyahara claimed bronze with 179.02 points.
U.S. silver medalist Polina Edmunds and
Christina Gao finished eighth and ninth, respec- tively.
Gold joined two-time U.S. champion Ash-
ley Wagner as qualifiers for the Grand Prix Final, held Dec. 11–14 in Barcelona, Spain. Wagner be- came the first U.S. lady to qualify for three con- secutive Grand Prix Finals since Michelle Kwan (2000–2002). ICE DANCE First-year senior competitors Kaitlin Ha-
wayek and Jean-Luc Baker rallied from fourth af- ter the short program to collect the bronze medal. Te 2014 World Junior champions performed their free dance to Romeo and Juliet, accumulat- ing 146.41 points. “We really approached the event with little
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to no expectations for placement and just wanted to put our name out there on the international scene and it looks like we did that,” Baker said. Te Michigan-based duo finished sixth at
the Rostelecom Cup with a score of 136.33. Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje grabbed the gold medal with 169.42 points, with Russia’s Ksenia Monko and Kirill Khaliavin se- curing silver with a score of 152.54. U.S. silver medalists Madison Chock and
Evan Bates, winners of Skate America and the Rostelecom Cup, qualified for the Grand Prix Fi- nal as top seeds, having earned the season’s high- est total ice dance score (174.28 points). U.S. bronze medalists Maia Shibutani and Alex Shib- utani, who won silver medals at Skate America and Cup of China, qualified for the Final for the first time since the 2011–12 season. MEN Four-time and reigning U.S. champion
Jeremy Abbott finished second in the short pro- gram and fifth overall with 229.65 points. Japan’s Daisuke Murakami won the event with 246.07 points. Russia’s Sergei Voronov captured the silver medal with a score of 236.65, while Japan’s Taka- hito Mura earned bronze with 234.44 points. Team USA’s Ross Miner and Joshua Farris
placed seventh and 11th, respectively. PAIRS First-year team DeeDee Leng and Simon
Shnapir improved upon their Grand Prix Series debut at the Rostelecom Cup by placing sixth with a score of 138.24. In Russia, they placed eighth with 128.68 points. Canada’s Meagan Duhamel and Eric Rad-
ford won with 199.78 points. Russia’s Yuko Ka- vaguti and Alexander Smirnov, winners at Hilton HHonors State America, claimed the silver medal with 183.60 points, while China’s Xiaoyu Yu and Yang Jin earned bronze with a score of 182.00.
rounded out the U.S. contingent, placing sev- enth and 10th overall with scores of 219.27 and 194.24, respectively. Russia’s Maxim Kovtun pulled up from a
sixth-place short program to win with 243.35 points. Japan’s Tatsuki Machida, the winner of Hilton HHonors Skate America, won the silver medal with 237.74 points, while Olympic bronze medalist and short program leader Denis Ten of Kazakhstan earned bronze with 236.28 points.
PAIRS
Alexa Scimeca and Christopher Knierim, the 2013 U.S. silver medalists, finished just off the podium with a score of 179.32. Teir free skate to Gershwin selections received all positive grades of execution, except for one combination jump.
Te Colorado Springs-based team’s score was a personal best, a 10-point improvement over their showing at Skate America. Russia’s Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov
captured their second consecutive Grand Prix Se- ries title with the victory. Te reigning Olympic, World and Euro-
pean silver medalists chalked up a total score of 209.81. At the Rostelecom Cup a week earlier, they tallied 211.97. China’s Wenjing Sui and Cong Han won
the silver medal with 200.68 points, while their teammates Xuehan Wang and Lei Wang captured the bronze with 181.97 points.
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